RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Four lines or less constitute half a square. Ten lines
or more than foul, neastitute a square.
uslfisi.,oneay— $0.25 One sq., ea5day......v.V3.50
o one weet.—. 1.00 " one iireek....... 1.26
ci one month.... 2.00 " 01381110Uth. .-. 8.00
4i three monthi. 3.00 gg three months. 5.00
4 c six months— . 4.00 g g ai.aionthe..., 8.00
46 one year— . 6.00 gg one year..-- 10.00
Boeibeali notices inserted in the LOOAL 47010 14 N) or
before marriages and deaths, FLYS (JESTS Pa
rang for eacb
insertion. to merchantsand others advertising bytheYear
hberelte, is will be offered.
jj:r The au.mberof insertions must bedesignatedontbe
deertilement •
4 Marriages and Deaths will be Insbrted. it the um.
es as regular advertisements.
80010, Otationtrp, &c.
OffOOL BOOKS.—School Directors )
STeachers, parents, Scholars, and others, in want of
school Books, School Stationery, fr.c., will find a complete
graorstm nt at B. M. POLLOCK A SON'S BOOK STOKE,
?data Square , Harrißhutig, comprising in part Om follow
ili,A.DEßS. —McCulley's, Parker's, Cobb's, Angell's
cPEL LI N BOOKS.-11eGuffers, Cobbs, Webster's,
fown's, Bya G
rly's_ Combry's,
ENGLISH GRAMMABS.—Bullion's, Smith% Wood
bridge's, Monteith,s, Tuthill's, Hart's, Wells'.
BlSTORLES.—Grimshaw's, Davenport's G o l dsmit h ' t
on% Willard's, Goodrich's, Pinnock's, s and
Clark's.
ARITHMETIC'S.--Greenlears, Stoddard's, Emerson's,
like's, Rose's, Colburn?s, Smith and Duke's, Davie's.
ALGBILAS,..-Gresideaf's, Davie% Dare, Bay's,
B ridge's.
DICTIONAWYS.—WaIker's School, Cobb's, Walker,
Worcester's Comprehensive, Worcester's Primary, Web
ster's Primary, Webster's Sigh School, Webster's Quarto,
Academic.
NATURAL PIIILOSOPHIES.—ComstocisiS, Parker e,
Swift's. The above with a great variety of others can at
any time be found at my store. Also, a complete assort
ment of School Stationary, embracing in the win le a com
plete outfit for school purposes. Any boa not in the stets_
procured at one days notice.
Er Country Merchants supplied at wholesale rates.
ALMANACS.—john Baer and Son's Almanac for sale ai
3. M. POLLOCK & SON'S BOOR STOKE, liarrisbnrg. l
Ex Wholesale and . Retail. my
S IIST RECEIVED
AT
SCHEFFER P S BOOKSTORE,
ADAMANTINE SLJTEB
OF VARIOUS SIM AND PRIM,
WbAoh, for beauty and use, cannot be excelled.
REMEMBER THE PLACE,
scHBFFERva BooISTORE,
NO. la MARKET STREET. mart
N E W kOOK B 1
JUST RECEIVED
gcusAl. AND SAY," by the author qf cc Wide, Wide
World," c , Dollars and Cents," Jco.
"HISTORY OF idET RODISEI,"by A.Stevens, 'LL.D.
For sale at SCREFFERS , BOOKSTORE,
&pp No. 18 Marko at.
JUST RECEIVED,
A LAIIff AND SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF
RICHLY GILT AND oRNAMENTAL
WINDOW CURTAINS,
PAPER BLINDS,
Of Tarions Designs and Colors, for 8 cents,
TISSUE PAPER AND CUT FLY PAPER,
At Emy?Al SCHEFFER , S BOOKSTORE.
WALL PAPER WALL PAPER
ADA received, our Spring Stock of WALL PAPER,
BORDERS, FMB SCREENS, &c., &e. It is the largest
and best selected assortment in the city, ranging in price
from six (6) cents up to one dollar and a quarter ($1.215_)
As we purchase very low for cash, we are prepared to
888 at as low rates, if not lower, than can be had else
where. if purchasers will call and @Wain°, we feel
confident that we can please them in respect to price
and quality. E. M POLLOCK & SON,
sp3 Below Tones) House, Market Square
_ - _
I.E TTE R, CAP, NOTE PAPERS,
-1-.1 Pens, Holders, Pencils Envelopes, Sealing Wax, of
the best quality, at low prices, direct from the menu
factorise, at
rasa) SCHEYFEWs artrAp BOOKSTORE
TAW BOOKS ! LAW BOOKS I I-A
gingered assortment of LAW BOOKS, all the State
Reports and Standard Elementary Works, with many of
the old English Reports, scarce and rase, together with
a large assortment of second-hand Law Books, at very
low prices, at the one price Bookstore of
B. M. POLLOCK & SON,
M ; Market Square, Harrisburg.
illiscellancons.
AN ARRIVAL OF
NEW GOODS
APPROPRIATE TO THE SEASON!
SILK LINEN PAPER
FANG! SANS!! FANS!!!
ANOTHER AND errata - ma LOT OP
SPLICED FISHING RODS!
Trout Plies, Gut and Hair Snoods, Grass Lines, Silk
and Hair Plaited Lines, and a general assortment of
FISHING TACKLE!
A GREAT VARIETY Or
WALKING CANES!
Which we will sell as cheap as the cheapest!
Silver Heed Loaded Sword Hickory Fancy
Canes! Canes! Canes! Cans! Canes!
KELLER'S DRUG AND FANCY STORE,
so. 91 MARKET STREET,
South side, one door east of Fourth street je9.
COAL!!!
N "
MP' ONLY $1,7 5 PER TON!!!—UT
TREVERTON NUT COAL for sale at $1.75 per ton,
delivered by Patent Weigh Carts.
PIN - EC - ROLE COAL, just received by ears, for sale by
feb2l JANES M. WHEELER.
rI ARDEN SEEDS ! !-A FRESH AND
LT COMPLETE assortment, just received and for sale by
feb2l WM. DOOR, & CO.
TIIST MOE [VED—A large Stock of
SCOTCH ALES, BROWN STGIJT and LONDON
PORTER. For sale at the lowest rates by.
JOHN H. ZIEGLER,
73 Market street.
janll
F I 81E11 FISH!!!
11.KOKIBEL, (Nos. 1, 2 and 3.)
SALMON, (very superior_)
BRAD, (Mess and very line.)
HERDING, (extra large.)
COD TOIL
SMOKED HERDING; (extra Digby.)
SCOTCH HIBBING.
sARDINES AND ANCHOVIES.
Of the above we have Mackerel in whole, half, quarter
and eighth bbls. Herring in whole and half bbls.
The entire lot new—nmeor raox Tfß 11111111.RIRS, and
will tell them at the lowest m ark e t
DOM & Co.
rates.
.
CHAMPAGNE WINES'
DUO BE MONTEBELLO,
MEIDEIRGE. Zr- CO.,
CHARLES GRIDSIEOK,
MEELER & CO.,
ANGKOR-KILLEEN MOUSSEUX,
SPARKLING MUSCATEL,
MIIMM & CO.'S
TZRZBNAY I
CABINET.
In gore and for sale by
JOHN H. ZIEGLER,
n Market street,
de2o
HICKORY WOOD ! !-A SUPERIOR LOT
just received, and for sale in quantities to suit pur
&awe, by 7AbIEB If. WEIEELER.
Also, OAK AND TINA constantly on hand at the
!tweet prices. dere
FAMILY BIBLES, from 1$ to $lO,
atreng and handsomely bound, printed on good paper,
with elegant clear new type cold at
main SCRUMPS Cheap Book tire.
CRANBERRIES I I !—A SPLENDID LOT
jact received by
octlo
FOR a superior and cheap TABLE or
SALAD OIL go to
KILLEIVE. DRUQ MU.
THE Fruit Growers' Handbook—by
WAR/MG—wholesale and retail at
metal SOMMER'S Booketore.
BPERM CANDLES.—A large supply
just I.4ceivtdiv.
saga WM. DOM lE., CO.
VELLEWS DRUU STORE is the place
1.31- t 0 flat IL% best aseertment of Porte Alonnalea.
WM. DOCK, Ja &CO
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- - pENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
WINTER TIME TABLE
MAN
FIVE TRAINS DAILY TO & FROM PIIMADELPIIIA
ON AND AFTER
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH, 1860,
The Passenger Trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad Cora
pany will depart from and arrive at Harrisburg art
Philadelphia as follows :
EASTWARD.
THROUGH EXPRESS TRAIN leaves Harrisburg a
2.40 a. m., and arrives at West Philadelphia at 6.50 a. m
FAST LINE leaves Marrisbum at 12.55 p. m., and
arrives at West Philadelphia at 5.00 p. m.
MAIL TRAIN leaves Harrisburg at 5.15 p.m., and ar
rives at West Philadelphia at 10.20 p. m.
These Trains make close connection at Philadelphia
with the New York Lines.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, NO. / , leaves Harrisburg
at 7.30 a. In, runs via Mount Joy, and arrives at West
Philadelphia at 12.30 p.
HARRISBURG ACCOMMODATION leaves Harris
burg at 1.15 p. in., and arrives at West Philadelphia at
5.40 p. m.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, N 0.2, leaves Harrisburg
at 5.25 p. m., runs via Mount Joy, connecting at Diller
vine with MAIL TRAIN East for Philadelphia.
WESTWARD.
THROUGH EXPRESS TRAIN leaves Philadelphia
10.50 p. m., and arrives at Harrisburg at 8.10 a. in.
MAIL TRAIN leaves Philadelphia at 8.00 a. in., an
arrives at Harrisburg at 1.20 p. m.
LOCAL MAIL TRAIN leaves Harrisburg for Patellar
at 7.00 a. in. -
OAST LINE leaves Philadelphia at 12.00 wen, and ar
rives at Harrisburg at 410 p. m.
HARRISBURG ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leave*
Philadelphia at 2.00 p. m., and arrives at Harrisburg si
7.35 p. m.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves Philadelphia
4.00 p. in., and arrives at Harrisburg at 0.45 p. za.
Attention is called to the fact, that passengers leaving
Philadelphia at 4 p. m. connect at Lancaster with
MOUNT JOY ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, and arrive
Harrisburg at 9.45 p. m.
SAMUEL D. YOUNG,
n023-dtt Supt. Nast. Div. Pean'a Railroad.
NEW AIR LINE ROUTE
NEW YORK.
"
- AK
Shortest in Distance and quickest in Time
BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES OF
NEW YORK AND HARRISBURG,
'VIA
READING, ALLENTOWN AND EASTON
MORNING EXPRESS, West, leaves New York at. S
a. in., arriving at Harrisburg at Ip. m. , on'.y hours
between the two cities.
MAIL LINE leaves New York at 12.00 noon, and ar
rives at Harrisburg at 8.15 p. in.
MORNING MAIL LINE, East, leaves Harrisburg
8.00 a. m., arriving at New York at 5.20 p. m.
AFTERNOON EXPRESS LINE, East, leaven Harriar
burg at 1.15 p. m., arriving at New York at 9.45 p. m.
Connections are made at Harrisburg at 1.00p.m. with
the Passenger Trains in each direction on the Penneylva
Las, Cumberland Valley and Northern Central Railroads
All Trains connect at Beading with Trains for Potts
',Me and Philadelphia, and at Allentown for Manch
Chunk, Easton, &o.
No change of Passenger Cars or Baggage between New
York and Harrisburg, by the 6.00 a. in. Line from New
York or the 1.15 p. in. from Harrisburg.
For beauty of scenery and speed, comfort and accom
mociation, this Route presents superior inducements to
the traveling public.
Fare between New York and Harrisburg, Firs DoLaaas
For Tickets and Other information apply to
J. J. CLYDE, General Agent,
dels Harrisburg.
PHILADELPHIA
AND
READING RAILROAD
WINTER ARSAN G ENENT.
ON AND AFTER DEC. 12, 1860,
TWO PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE HARRISBURG
DAILY, (Sundays excepted,) at 8.00 A. M., and 1.15 P.
M., for Philadelphia, arrivingthere at 1.25 P. M., and 6.15
P. M.
RETURNING, LEAVE PHILADELPHIA at 8.00 A.M.
and 8.30 P. M., arriving at Harrisburg at 1 P. H. and B.le
P. M.
FARES :—To Philadelphia, No. 1 Can, $3.25; No. 2,
(in same train) $2.75.
PARRS:--To Readion $1.60 and 81.80.
At Reading, connect with traits; for Pottsville, Miners
ville, Tamaqua, Catawissa, &c.
FOUR TRAINS LEAVE READING FOR PHILADEL
PHIA DAILY, at OA. H., 10.45 A. M., 12.20 noon and
3.43 P. M.
LEAVE PHILADELPHIA POE READING at 8 A.
1.60 P. M., 2.80 P. M., sad 5.00 P, R.
PARES:—Beading to Philadelphia, $1.75 and $1.45.
THE MORNING TRAIN FROM HARRISBURG CON.
NECTS AT READING with up train for Wilkenbarre
Pittston and Scranton.
For through tickets and other information apply to
I. 0 . , CLYDE,
4015 .dtf General Agent.
PHILADELPHIA
AND
READING RAILROAD.
REDUCTION OP PASSENORR FARES,
ON AND AFTER MONDAY, APRIL 2, /560
COMMUTATION TICKETS,
With 28 Coupons, will be issued between any point.
desired, , good for the holder and any member of his
family, in any Paseenger train, and at any time—at 2b
per cent, below the regular fares.
Parties having occasion to use the Road frequently on
business or pleasure, will find the above arrangement
convenient and economical as Four Passenger tritium
run daily each wry' between Reading and Philadelphia,
and Two Train/ between Reading, Pottsville and
Harrisburg. Of Dewlap, only one morning train Down,
and one of train Up, runs betweenPottsville and
pkiladelphir and no Paesanger train on the Lebanon
Talley Brrned, Railroad.
For tno above Tickets, or any information relating
thereto apply to B. Bradford, Esq., Treasurer,Philsdel.
phia, f the respective Ticket Agents on the line, or to
G. A. NIOOLLS, General ßup l t.
Marsh 21, 1880.—mar2S-dtf
NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY.
N 0 1 - 1 C E.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
SPRING ARRANGEMENT.
ON AND AFTER FRIDAY, MARCH I sr, 1861.
the
Passenger Trains of the Northern Central Railway will
leave Harrisburg as follows :
GOING- SOUTH.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN will leave at. 3.00 a. m.
EXPRESS TRAIN will leave at ....... • . 1.40 a. m
MAIL TRAIN willleave at 1.00 p.m,
GOING NORTH
MAIL TRAIN will leave at 1.40 p. m.
REPRESS TRAIN will leave at .4.50 p, m.
The only Train leaving Harrisburg on Sunday will ie
the ACCOMMODATION TRAIN South. at 3.00 a. m.
For farther information apply at the office, in Penn
Sylvania Railroad Depot. JOHN W. HALL, Agent.
Harrisburg, March lst-dtf.
APPLEWHISKY !—PunzJ mar Ar,
rus!—ln store .and for sale by
JOHN H. ZIEGLER,
feb7 73 Market street.
DRIED BEEF—An extra lot of Dit,LED
BEEF just received by
nog WM. DOOR, Je., & CO.
UItLINGTON lIEIRRING I
D Jut xecelyed by WM. DOCK, dr. CO
oel
HARRISBURG, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1861.
„Miscellaneous.
TAKE NOTICE!
That we have recently added to our already full otock
OF SEGARS
LA NORMATIS,
HARI KARI,
EL MONO,
LA BANANA.
OF PERFUMERY
FOR THE IiANDIEEROHIEV :
TURKISH ESSENCE,
ODOR OF MUSK,
LUBIN'S ESSENCE BOUQUET,
FOR THE HATE:
RAU LUSTRALE,
CRYSTALIZED POMATUM,
MYRTLE AND VIOLET POMATUM.
FOR THE COMPLEXION :
TALC OF VENICE,
ROSE LEAF POWDER,
NEW MOWN HAY POWDER,
BLANC DE PERLES.
OF SOAPS.
11.A.ZIN 7 11FINIST
MOSS ROSE,
BENZOIN,
UPPER TEN,
-VIOLET,
NEW MOWN HAY,
JOCKEY CLUB,
Having the largest stock and beet assortment of Toilet
Articles, we fancy that we are better able than our com
petitors to get up a complete Toilet Set at any price de
sired. Call and see.
Always on hand, a FRESH Stock of DR MS, MEDI
CINES, CHEMICALS, Ise , consequent of our re
ceiving almost daily additions thereto.
KELLER'S DRUG AND FANCY STORE,
91 Market Street, two doors East of Fourth Street,
sep6 South side.
JACKSON & CO.'S
SHOE STORE,
NO. 90X MARKET STREET.,
HARRISBURG, PA.,
Where they intend to devote their entire time to the
manufacture of
BOOTS AND SHOES
Of all kinds and varieties, in the neatest and most fash•
'enable styles, and at satisfactory prices.
Their stock will consist, in part, of Gent/emen 7 s Fine
Calf and Patent Leather Boots and Shoes, latest styles;
Ladies' and Misses' Gaiters, and other Shoes in great
variety; and in fact everything connected with the
Shoe business.
CUSTOMER WORK will be particularly attended to,
and in all cases will satisfaction be warranted. Lasts
fitted up by one of the best makers in the country.
The long practical experience of the undersigned, and
their thorough knowledge of the business will, they
trust, be sufficient guarantee to the public that they
will do them justice, and furnish them an article the
will recommend itself for utility, cheapness and dura
bility. (janil] JACKSON & CO.
JUST RECEIVED!
A FULL ASSORTMENT OF
HUMPHREY'S HOMEOPATHIC SPECIFICS
TO WHICH WE INVITE TRY
ATTENTION OF THE AFFLICTED !:
For Bale at
SCHREYER'S BOOKSTORE S
ap9 No. 18 Market et,
WE OFFER TO
CUSTOMERS
A New Lot of
LADIES' PURSE:E,
Of Beautiful Styles, substantially made
A Splendid Assortment of
GENTLEMEN'S WALLETS
A New andaßlegant Perfume,
KNIOHTB TZIKPit.kRS , ;ROULET,
Put up in Cut Maas Engraved Bottles.
A Complete Assortment of)
!HANDKERCHIEF PERFUMES,
Of the best Manufacture.
A very Handsome 'Variety of
POWDER PUFF BOXES,
HELLER'S DRUG STORE,
VS/ 91 Market street.
REMOV L.
JOHN W. GLOVER,
MERCHANT TAIILOR,,
flu removed to
60 MARKET STREET,
Where he will be pleased to aee all his friend
oetB-dtf
CANDLE BM
PARAFFIN CANDLES,
SPERM CANDLES,
STEARINE CANDLES,
ADAMANTINE CANDLES,
CUEMICAL SPERM CANDLES,
STAR (serration) CANDLES,
TALLOW CANDLES.
A large invoice of the above in store, and for sale at
unusually low rates, by
WM. DOCK, SE., & CO.,
jAnl Opposite the 091.111.110u5e
GTJN AND BLASTING POWDER.
JAMES M. WHEELER,
HARRISBURG, PA., .
AO.ENT FOR ALL
POWDER AND FUSE
MANUFAUTURED Itlr
I. E. DUPONT DE NEMOURS do CO.,
'ILMINGTON, DELAWARE.
frrA large supply always on hand. For Bale at manu
facturer's prices. Magazine two miles below town.
lEr Orden' received at Warehouse. no/7
SCOTCH WHISKY.—One Puncheon
of PURE SCOTCH WHISKY just received and for
male by
jan2
EMPTY _BOTTLES I I—Of all sizes
And doseriptiono, for ale /ow by
dec43 WM. DOCK, Ws., dr.. CO.
HATCH & CO.,
SHIP AGENTS
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
US WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA,.
D%ALIAS lii
FLOUR, GRAIN, PRODUCE, COTTON,
WINES AND LIQUORS,
TOBACCO AND CIGARS.
notr6.l6an
DYOTTVILLE GLASS WORKS,
PHILADELPHIA,
ou.ooLLooento
CARBOYS, DEMIJOHNS,
WINE, PORTER, MINERAL WATER, PICKLE AND
PRESERVE BOTTLE'S
OF XYBILY DISORIPTION.
H. B. A O. W. EENNER3,
oel9-dly 21 gonth Pront atoret, PhiladelphiO.
A T COS TI!!
BOTTLED WINES, BRANDIES,
AND
LIQUORS OFEVERY DESCRIPTION!
Together with a Complete assortment, (wholeettle and
retail,) embracing everything in the line, will be sold at
cost, without reserve.
janl WM. DOCK, Ja., & CO.
HAVANA CTGARS.—A Fine Assort
ment, comprising Figaro Zaiagozona, La Suiza,
Bird, Fire Fly Etelvina, La Berinto, Capitolio of ail
sizes and qualities., In quarter, one-irth and one-tenth
boxes, just received , and for sale low by
JOHN H. ZIEGLER,
Jun. 73 Market Street.
VELLER'S DRUG STORE is the place
to buy Domestic Medicines
JOHN H. ZIWLER,
73 Market street
Ete ',patriot Union.
THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 7, 1861
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
DISTRESS IN GREAT BRITAIN-HOW THE AMER
ICAN CRISIS IS AFFECTING TRADE &ND MANU
FACTURES-PAUPERISM AND STARVATION.
"A Southerner in Europe" writes to the Mem
phis Appeal from London, under date of Janu
ary 24, as follows :
England is in a deplorable condition. Her
working population are nearly all in a state of
starvation—scarcely earning enough to sustain
life. There are over 250,000 fed by the alma
houses in London alone. This great distress is at
tributed to two causes—the troubles in the
United States and the severe winter. The re
ports from the manufacturing districts may
give some faint idea of "freedom," of "white
slavery" in "free," enlightened and aristocratic
England. In no country on the face of the
earth can there be found such heart-rending
distress.
Holland, with her soil inundated to the ex
tent of two hundred square miles—sweeping
away twenty-two villages, and destroying cat
tle, grain and everything owned by its inhab
itants—is not half as bad off as the "labor ma
chines" of England. A few extracts from the
reports of the leading cities will suffice, and
prove the assertion, and serve as a comparison
between the condition of the Southern States
and those who traduce her and her institu
tions, who can afford no better words than
"villians," "slayers," "murderers," "man
stealers," "revilers of all law, religion, justice
and humanity :"
Birminglawn.—Trade is completely paralyzed.
The American trade is entirely suspended.—
The employers can only work their hands three
or four days in the week, and the majority only
work two days. T.ie prospect for next week
is still worse. Business of all kinds is de
pressed—indeed there has not been so much
distress for years.
Bradford.—No improvement this week. The
stoppage of American trade has a particularly
adverse influence this week. The goods manu
factured for the United States have been thrown
upon the market here. Spinners are stopping
some of their machinery, and the reduction of
time his been a weighty blow to the working
classes, and 2,661 are now fed by the Bradford
Union alone.
Balifax.—The aspect of both American and
foreign affairs is not of an assuring character,
nor is the money market in such a state as to
give buoyancy to commercial transactions.—
There is a very large number of hands out of
work; times are bad.
Leeds.—A good deal of caution is manifested
here, owing to "the signs of the time," We
have rarely worked full time. All orders for
America have been•suspended or countermand
ed.
Hanchester.—Times as usual; cotton is ad
vancing, and the fabric must rise; market dull;
domestie exceedingly slow of sale. In no de
partment of the market is there any tendency
to speculation in anticipation of events likely
to arise in the United States.
Newer:tagle-upon-Tyne.—Trade dull. The pri
, ate advices from our best customers (Amer
an) are not favorable. Orders to continue
shipments of iron and other merchandise to
the Southern States, have been received this
week by some firms in the iron trade. The
disturbed state of America and the Continent is
acting very prejudicially. There is considerable
suffering among the worAng classes.
Norwich.—The depression in the shoe trade
has created great distress. A town meeting
was called, and £4,000 collected for the suf
ferers. Over 28,000—one-third of the popula
tion—applied for assistance.
Nottingham.—Business is more dull than it
has been for many years past. Machinery is
at a stand, and the lacemakers are suffering to
a fearful extent, and great distress among
working people generally.
Wolverhampton.—Advices from America are
unfavorable, and some houses have stopped
which were confined to that trade. Our fur
naces are not going half the time, anetnuch
distress exists among our working classes.
Sheffield.—Trade i;depressed. Advices from
America this week are gloomy, and bring more
countermands instead of orders. Nearly all
the branches of trade are on half time. The
pauperism of this town is within a fraction of
50 per cent. in excess of last year.
Coventry.—Upward of 60,000 are supported
by public subscription here and in the adjoin
ing districts.
13eljust.—Upwards of 100,000 spindles have
stopped, and many of the mills are on half
time. There is not much real distress, the poor
being provided for. The troubles in America
may prove serious ; they are our great custom
ers, and all orders have been countermanded.
A rector of London sends a report to the
Times that it required $300,000 per week to
support the people on charity, and that at this
season of the year it required $600,000 per
week. The average amounts to $15,000,000
per annum for London. Comment is unneces
sary. These are facts published to the world,
and we believe the distress is much worse than
represented.
Let missionaries, Abolitionists, "supply as
sociations," anti-slavery societies, Exeter and
Eaneuil Hall fanatics, read this chapter.
The number of deaths last week in London
amounted td 1,926, exceeding the estimate by
686. 4 deaths from starvation; bronchitis,
471; phthisis, 188; pulmonary complaints, 702,
Births for the week, 939 boys and 920 girls.
in all, 1,859 children. The estimated number,
1,693. The population of London is put down
at 8,000,000.
The number of deaths last week in London
exceeded the largest mortality of any week in
1849, (the worst time of cholera,) by over 250.
The Poor-rates of England is $45,000,000.
Add to this the almshouses and other institu-
lions Of charity, with Scotland and Ireland,
and you have a sum equal to the expenditure
of the United States, about $70,000,000 annu
ally.
England is pauperized, having, on an average,
1,500,000, equal to 20 per cent. of the popula
tion. The paupers of London are put down
at 250,000, besides those in private institu
tions.
Downtrodden Ireland is not as bad as either
England or Scotland. A considerable excite
ment exists in Dublin, owing to the large
export of potatoes to England, and the price
had advanced to Bd. per stone, about $l5O per
100 pounds.
The potato crop of England, Scotland, France
and Belgium has been very bad, and that of
Ireland and Germany very good.
England requires 8,000,000 quintals of wheat,
or an equivalent, to feed her until the new crop.
At an average price this will cost her $llO,-
000,000. She is on the verge of a commercial
erLis. Yet "outsiders" do not seem to see nor
care,
HOW IT CAMB ABOUT
Li the following passage from a lecture de
livered a few days ago by lion. Geo. Lunt, of
Boston, the process is shown by which the
judgment of many Northern men has been cor-
rupted, the conscience perverted, and the pop
ular mind poisoned by deep-rooted prejudice
toward our fellow citizens of the South:
There can be no doubt that a systematic
scheme has been on foot in certain quarters,
for several years past, to alienate by every pos
sible means both parts of the country from
each other. Multitudes, who have been un
conscious of the objects and agencies of this
flagitious plan, have been insensibly inveigled
into its direct or indirect support. Journals,
lecture-rooms, and other places claiming even a
more sacred mission, have been made to con
tribute to the same fatal purpose. A lecture,
in recent days, before a miecellaneous audience,
would hardly have been reckoned acceptable,
' without some sly innuendo or jeering allusion
to certain of our distant fellow-citizens, and to
their usages and supposed peculiarities of life
and disposition. Literature, which ought to be
universal, has been made the special minister
to local passions and prejudices, even more de
moralizing to ourselves, than uncharitable and
offensive to others. To a very marked degree,
both the school book and the hymn book—the
elementary implement of common education,
and perhaps the most emotional vehicle of re
ligious feeling—have been used to impress the
idea upon youthful and undiscriminating minds,
that multitudes of our countrymen were wil
fully persisting in an unpalliating wrong to
wards another race—that those persons were
guilty of a mortal offence in the sight of God
and man, who maintained institutions recog
nized, under the clear necessities of the ease,
by the great charter of our liberties, and fully
entitled to, as it had solemnly received, the
obedient sanction of national legislation.
The sense of moral accountability, through
out one half the country, and its equal consti
tutional immunities, were both thus impugned.
Many there are, I know, who deny all hostility
tol the South, of those who most stiffly and
ceaselessly heap upon it the bitterest vitupera
tion. Hostility to the South! Why it is
by no means confined to that quarter alone ;
but is wreaked upon those at the North, too,
who are denounced as the friends of the South,
because they are the friends and supporters of
the Constitution. To such lengths has this
sectional sentiment been carried into practical
operation among ourselves, that it has pro
duced even here the most intolerant, if not almost
intolerable, political and social distinctions.—
Those whose opinions did not accord with the
prevalent idea, have been sometimes practically
ostracised by large bodies of our citizens.—
They have been ma'igned and insulted, depre
ciated, and sometimes even threatened with
summary retribution. They have appeared at
times to have nothing to depend upon, but
their reliance upon their own integrity, and
the good name, which somehow seems to stand
by every man who deserves it, under whatever
infliction of calumnies. And sometimes it has
happened, that those who were at all conspicu
ous for the preservation of their own reason,
and for their efforts to stem the tide of fiery
zeal for an object totally impracticable upon its
face and in its nature, have found themselves
with a sort of mark set upon them, so that even
their professed friends feel a little hesitation
about too familiar intercourse with them. It
has never been in many quarters, and especially
in political circles, more than half-way sincere
—which is one reason, perhaps, why this pran
cing hobby-horse of the time has been ridden
with such s'gnal success, by such a mustering
swarm of adventurers and unscrupulous poli
ticians. So far from being the entire sentiment
of the community, it may be said to have been
rather, in a great degree, their unconscious
action—but quite enough so to control society
in many important relations, by the factious
eagerness and activity of its busiest agents.—
It has had prevalence, at any rate, and influ
ence enough, often to put ability and character
aside, and to raise those without ability or with
out character, and perhaps without both, to
places of distinction and trust. In a word,
under the sunlight and the shadow of these
noblest of all Republican institutions, while the
good man of Me house has been asleep, the enemy
has been sowing tares.
In the meantime, it may well be doubted,
whether one man of a hundred in New England
ever read the Constitution of his country.—
And did time permit me, I might proceed to
trace many of the demoralizing influences of
the times to other works, so extensively read
by large classes of men and women—works
often equally mischievous and shallow, taking
away strength from the mind, instead of ren
dering support and nourishment to its better
faculties, and too frequently the vehicles of
pernicious error, and ill enough fitted to make
men and women what they ought to be in this
country, or any other—and, oh, how different
from the nobler classics of our mother litera
ture, perused by those who read at all, at the
firesides of our fathers, and which were in
general as choice in merit, as they were select
and few in number. Ido not care to pursue
this topic further; but such unquestionably
has been the more recent education of the
North, through those and many other channels,
by no means difficult to trace. lam sure that
such, and similar causes, have been the occa
sion of a vast deal of misapprehension between
the South and the North, and without them no
such serious controversy could have arisen,
and no such present or future consequences
could be at hand. In the eagerness and ab
sorption of our business pursuits, and, as the
flickering flame of our patriotism was fast
going down—this, out of the ordinary range of
many of us and quite apart from ourselves, has
been the active, and, therefore, the external
working sentiment of our community. It did
not truly represent the inner mind of our
people ; but by its energy it led multitudes
into political and social errors, who gave it
only a cursory thought, and who apprehended
from it no danger and no evil. The state of
sentiment it has produced is unnatural and
unwholesome, but at the same time superficial,
and could not long last. The end of it is, as
might have been expected, the civil convulsion
around no, and, unless we are equal to the
emergency, all that can be meant by the ruin
of the country. In any event, the fatal senti
ment, which is the root of bitterness, is sure
to die out. I only earnestly pray it may not
be already too late.
SAD AFFAIR—WEST CHESTER, Pa., March 3.
Marshall Bailey, a young man of good family,
shot himself yesterday morning, at his mill, in
Elk Dale village, New London township, Ches
ter county, Pa. Whether or not he intended
t o com mit the act is not known. His friends
generally think it was an accident—that the
pistol exploded while he was loading it.. The
ball entered his right eye, passing through the
top of his head, and lodged in the ceiling. No
one was present at the time ; but his apprentice
entered the mill soon after hearing the report
of the pistol, saw him lying on his face, and
gave the alarm, when neighbors soon came, but
the wounded man never spoke afterwards, and
soon died. He was about twenty-eight years
old, very prepossessing in his manners, and
had been married but two months.
The Dutch journals announce that the Pope
has sent, through his Nuncio at the Hague, the
SUM of ten thousand francs to the fund which
is being raised for the relief of the sufferers
from the recent inundations,
PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING,
SUNDAES EXCEPTED,
BY 0. BARRETT & CO
fxs DAILY PATRIOT two UNION Will be Nerved to en b
Seribers reeiding in the Borough for SIX OENTB PER WEEK
payeble to the Carrier. Mail tubecribere ) roue Dor.
LIRE PRE ANNUM.
Tne WEEKLY Will be published as heretofore, semi
weekly during
. the session of the Legislature, and once a
week the remainder of the year, for two dollars in ad
vance, or three dollars at the expiration of the year.
Connected with this establishment is an extensive
JOB OFirlOß, containing a variety of plain and fancy
type, unequalled by any establishment lathe interior of
the Mate, for which the patronage of the publie le PO-
Hotted .
NO. 158.
GENERAL NEWS.
FLAX COTTON.—Much interest is expressed in
the modes recently discovered of making flax
into a substance closely resembling cotton. By
the Ceaussen process the flax fibres are chemi
cally separated—and by the Lyman plan they
are separated by being fired once or twice from
a steam cannon, the explosive force being
about two hundred pounds to the square inch.
A new mode has just been tried at the mills of
Sampson & Tappan, at Roxbury, Mass., and
samples give much satisfaction, as showing
that the product will be well adapted for mix
ing with wool, for making fine thread, and for
other purposes. By this last mode the flax is
passed through rollers of an inch diameter, and
the principal difficulty seems to be the limited
amount of work that can be done by such small
rollers. Mr. Lyman is about to make arrange
ments for securing a sufficient supply of flax
from Illinois and other portions of the great
West, to keep his steam guns busy.
NOTICE OF AN "OLD CALIFORNIAN. " -It seams
says the British Colonist, of Victoria, V. 1., that
John Butts is in the habit of collecting as many
Indians as he can in a little cottage where he
lives, near the congregational church. He then
leads off with a prayer, followed by singing a
hymn. John then makes a short and feeling
address; follows it with another hymn, a col
lection is taken up, and the congregation dis
missed with a benediction. After the services
dancing, singing and drinking whisky are the
order of the evening—Butts acting as barkeeper
with as much grace as he a few rat/merits before
officiated as clergyman. It is quite an.ingeniouS
plan, and the inventor is, no doubt, making
a "good thing" by administering spiritual com
fort to his flock in two totally different ways.
PEDIGREE IN AMERICA.—Dr. Curds, in his
last State Registration report, speaks of a
marked neglect of the American people as fol
lows: "More attention is given in this country
to the pedigree of animals than of human be
ings, and many persons can tell the exact gene
alogy of a favotite horse for Were' generations,
who do not know the maiden names of their
own grandmothers, nor would it be possible
for them to ascertain the facts from any legal
records. It would probably be impossible for
a large portion of the middle aged men and
women in the United States to prove that their
own parents were ever married, and that they
have any legitimate right to the name they
bear."
TRADD AND CONBIENON OF CIIANLESTOFC — We
rejoice to see our streets again becoming alive
with trade and commerce. From the large
number of boxes which line the sidewalks in
front of our wholesale stores, it is evident that
a large business has already opened. The
spring trade is opening with a fresh demand,
and we learn that supplies by heavy importa
tions have arrived in greater quantities than
usual at such periods. Our wharves are also
assuming a crowded appearance. Cotton is
coming in fast, and meets with a good fair
demand. Vessels are also in demand for load
ing cotton ready to be shipped. The draymen
are busy, and are likely to reap a rich harvest.
—Courier, AfaicA 2.
Balmoral skirts are now largely manufactured
in the United States. It is said that so large
an order as for 10,000 has lately been given by
a New York dealer to Lawrence manufacturers.
The Commercial Bulletin says : "In regard to
Pontoosuc Mills, Pittsfield, we hear they are
producing at the rate of 175 Balmoral& daily,
and have introduced as a leading dolor in them,
the new and splendid red known as Moe
quetta,' and made from coal tar, which has for
months been used by the Washington Mills.
These American Balmorals are, both in fineness
of texture and beauty and variety of colors,
quite up to the very best of imported arti
cles,"
OVERCROWDED DWELLINGS /N N'Ew
From the report of Mr. Halliday to the Sani
tary Association we glean these illustrative
figures: New York in 1856 contained 336,027
inhabitants in nineteen of its wards, divided
into 112,833 families. For the accommodation
of these there were 36,086 dwellings, averaging
about three families to a dwelling. It-was also
found that while 24,966 of these dwellings
sheltered but 86,213 families, the remaining
13,623 houses have to cover 76,620 families—
au average of nearly six families to each house.
ARKANSAS ELECTION.—The Des Arc Constitu
tional Union (anti-secession) of the 22d ult.,
concedes that. the assembling of a convention
has received the sanction of the people, and
that the election of secession members to the
convention has been accomplished. The Union
says " The time for Arkansas to take a bold
front has arrived. Longer delay is dangerous,
for the 4th of March will soon be at hand,
when the people of Mimosas, by remaining in,
will be compelled to bear arms against their
brethren."
FOREIGN OIL PROPVcrioN.—The importation
of foreign coal oil, under the new tariff, will
be almost impossible. This fact is of interest
to numbers of Pennsylvanians who have re
cently invested in the oil business. The pro
visions of the new tariff impose a duty " on
Kerosine oils, and ail other coal oils of ten
cents per gallon." Foreign producers, under
these circumstances, will have to look else
where than to the United States for a market.
NEW WAY TO PUT OUT FlRM—They have a
novel way of saving a house on fire in Rich.
mond, Missouri, when there is snow on the
ground. One evening last week a house was
discovered to be in flames. One hundred and
fifty men were soon gathered about, and whilst
some were removing the furniture, the others
kept up a steady "fire" on the premises with.
snowballs, thus saving the building.
A number of professional gentlemen, in and
outside the service, have petitioned the Navy
Department to publish the report of the Board
of Engineers, that convened at Buffalo to test
the intrinsic value of steam ezpanoin, It IS
thought that the decision of the Board will be
controverted by some engineers not in the navy.
RESCUE OF A rIIGITIVE SLavlt.—John Polhe
taus, a fugitive slave belonging to Mr. Jameson,
of Louisburg, Va., was rescued from the Deputy
U. S. Marshal, in New York, on Saturday, by
a mob of negroes and whites, just as he was
about to be placed on board the steamer York
town for Richmond.
Under the more liberal policy of Louis Na
poleon in relatioi to the press and the freedom
of debate in - the Corps Legislatif, there is a
sudden demand for short-hand writers to report
the debates, and Strange to say, the supply
falls far short of the demand.
The Paris Court of Cessation has declared
that the fete of the Immaculate Conception is
not a legal one, not being conformable tolaw
or the existing concordat.
Forty-three army officers have resigned since
the passage of the South Carolina ordinance of
secession, several of them without reference to
that subject.
Extensive preparations are to be made in
England for a grand tri-centennial celebretiOn
in honor of Shakspeare, to take place in 1864.
The Poet was born April 28d, 1864,
Hon. James Id. Hughes, formerly a member
of Congress from Missouri, died last week.
No taxes are now paid la Hungary, in son*
sequence of the political troubles.
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